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March 24, 2014 - Steve Murch

Earlier this month Forbes announced its annual billionaires list, also known as a list you and I aren't on (unless somehow a billionaire somehow stumbles upon thealpenanews.com). More than 1,600 people around the world are on the list. That's a whole lot of money.

I did a search to see if there is a word for being obsessed with billionaires. Apparently there isn't, but someone wrote (if you can tell by a book's cover) some trashy romance books called The Billionaire's Obsession. But it you want to obsessively follow your favorite billionaire's net worth, Forbes now does that as well

According to the website, “The value of individuals’ public holdings will be updated every 5 minutes when respective markets are open. Billionaires who only have holdings in private companies will have their net worth updated once a day.”

Aside from making ourselves feel really poor, I'm not sure what the purpose could be. But then again, people who read Forbes on a daily basis probably have a few more dollars than most of us anyway.